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, with five days left until the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts. the house planned to reconvene on sunday evening. a christmas season storm rolled through the northeast and new england, as the death toll climbed to 16. and lisa jackson announced she's stepping down as administrator of the environmental protection agency. and online, we've got a unique year-in-review of sorts. kwame holman has more. >> holman: science correspondent miles o'brien has had a most interesting 2012. he's crawled in sewage, cuddled with dolphins and played guinea pig to lots of experiments. watch some of the best outtakes of miles' science stories on the rundown. and we round up the most important lessons we've learned about helping kids stay in school from our series, american graduate. all that and more is on our web site newshour.pbs.org. margaret? >> warner: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks among others. thank you and good
, with five days left until the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts. the house planned to reconvene on sunday evening. a christmas season storm rolled through the northeast and new england, as the death toll climbed to 16. and lisa jackson announced she's stepping down as administrator of the environmental protection agency. and online, we've got a unique year-in-review of sorts. kwame holman has more. >> holman: science correspondent miles o'brien has had a most interesting 2012....
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not a lot of support there for president obama. so they're solidifying their own base among older voters. but the facts are so clear that the $716 billion in reductions from medicare spending over 10 years which not to confuse people further but they used to hear republicans say $500 billion. the difference is you've moved the 10 year perio we're in a different 10-year period that's more current. it means more in reductions. the reductions are in insurers and other providers of health care. not a penny is it from beneficiaries and the same amount of reductions were in paul ryan's budget for each of the two years -- gwen: romney says i will have my own plan. the ryan plan is fine. we haven't heard what it is. but he's basically said that is all well and good but i'm not going to embrace -- >> that's the other thing i'm confused about. i can't help but think that he's going to restore those $716 billion in reduction which means that these providers and insurance companies will get higher payments than they otherwise do under obama ca
not a lot of support there for president obama. so they're solidifying their own base among older voters. but the facts are so clear that the $716 billion in reductions from medicare spending over 10 years which not to confuse people further but they used to hear republicans say $500 billion. the difference is you've moved the 10 year perio we're in a different 10-year period that's more current. it means more in reductions. the reductions are in insurers and other providers of health care. not...
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spent it on obama care, that is not true but they took the money and spent it on tax cuts for the wealthy, so the bottom line of this, the president has to take it to the people, abraham lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. for us to talk about somebody's interpretation, somebody's version of the story and the rest of that, is so unimportant, what is important is that the choices that have to be made and many of them will be difficult, have to be made in a grand way, this is not a small potato thing, and the public has to know what the decision is, and if the republicans want to insist to the public that they don't want to tax the wealthiest people in america, even by a little bit, then the public should know that. >> okay. wouldn't it be nice if i had john boehner here and the two of oh two of you could have this conversation for the benefit, you would agree to that, wouldn't you? >> of course, of course, but the fact is, is that you have to have -- you have to insist upon the truth. you have to insist on the truth and the truth is, that the plea agreed to that grand bargain and
spent it on obama care, that is not true but they took the money and spent it on tax cuts for the wealthy, so the bottom line of this, the president has to take it to the people, abraham lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. for us to talk about somebody's interpretation, somebody's version of the story and the rest of that, is so unimportant, what is important is that the choices that have to be made and many of them will be difficult, have to be made in a grand way, this is not a...
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but we do have in store european style austerity, having sequester coming so spending cuts, with huge tax increases on top of them, unless something is done. and i wouldn't be so sure obama will veto a deal if he lose the election, the entire political environment will be different and what you want is not -- >> i didn't state a deal. if there's a deal, that's another story. >> if romney wins, congress will do something, some holding action, that is congenial to what he wants to do. the brit al environment will change. and what you want to do is sensible tax system, lower rates, less deductions and less loopholes, spending some reasonable prudent spending restraints, and then reforming entitlements over the long- term. you want to do what paul ryan and mitt romney are talking about. >> you think this electioneering is dangerous in view of the eurozone and china faltering a little? >> china faltering a lot. euro zone on the edge of a cliff with a very high probable. >> except germany. >> . >> yes but it does make the difference. the entire southern part of europe is hanging by a thread
but we do have in store european style austerity, having sequester coming so spending cuts, with huge tax increases on top of them, unless something is done. and i wouldn't be so sure obama will veto a deal if he lose the election, the entire political environment will be different and what you want is not -- >> i didn't state a deal. if there's a deal, that's another story. >> if romney wins, congress will do something, some holding action, that is congenial to what he wants to do....
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obama wants to keep inflating the amount of spending the government is doing. it is the highest since the second world war. he is now 25%. what he calls a cut the not increasing of a budget he has inflated radically. >> he says if we enacted the ryan budget that it would deal with the budget? >> absolutely. >> do you say that? it does not say anything about loopholes. >> look, i find it interesting that you're defense of the administration -- >> i am not defending the administration! what loopholes is the closing? >> he is going to leave it to the house ways and means committee. party has not -- >> not my party -- >> what have the democrats offered on medicare? >> i think the democrats are irresponsible on medicare. i think the democrats are terrible. >> it will be capping of the mortgage interest rate deduction. that will be -- >> let me bring this up and go to mark and nina. >> evan is right. paul ryan has a budget where there is none of the spinach. it is in general and vague. charles apparel has some pipeline -- apparently has some pipeline t. knows what is
obama wants to keep inflating the amount of spending the government is doing. it is the highest since the second world war. he is now 25%. what he calls a cut the not increasing of a budget he has inflated radically. >> he says if we enacted the ryan budget that it would deal with the budget? >> absolutely. >> do you say that? it does not say anything about loopholes. >> look, i find it interesting that you're defense of the administration -- >> i am not defending...
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in a last bid for a deal, president obama stated his terms face-to-face to top republicans and democrats. >> congressional leaders arrive ted white house this afternoon for their first group meeting with the president since november 16th. vice president biden and treasury secretary timothy geithner also attend. but there was little to suggest the makings of an 11th hour bargain. a source familiar with the meeting told the newshour its president is sticking with his offer from last friday. it included keeping the bush era tax break force the middle class but raising tax rates on incomes over 250,000 dollars a year. president also wants to extend unemployment benefits for some 2 million americans who will lose them in the new year. and a proposal would delay any spending cuts. the president asked for an up or down vote on his plan unless there is a counter proposal that will pass both the house and senate. a little more than an hour after the meeting began, several participants were seen leaving. >> and back at the capital the senate's democratic majority leader harry reid and republican m
in a last bid for a deal, president obama stated his terms face-to-face to top republicans and democrats. >> congressional leaders arrive ted white house this afternoon for their first group meeting with the president since november 16th. vice president biden and treasury secretary timothy geithner also attend. but there was little to suggest the makings of an 11th hour bargain. a source familiar with the meeting told the newshour its president is sticking with his offer from last friday....
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they're talking much less about the spending cuts that and also they say would be part of a so-called balanced deal. but i think on some level, republicans realize that they don't have a lot of leverage in this situation. certainly people want to see both taxes and spending. but the republicans that i talked to are a little bit nervous. and you see them also coming out with some tough talk. speaker boehner saying that he even wants to bring health care back into things. but i think republicans realize -- and you see the conciliatory way they're talking about taxes, right? they're saying even though we don't want these tax hikes we're willing to bring in more tax revenue. pete: speaker boehner's reference to the obamacare was in an op-ed he wrote in "the cincinnati enquirer" this week. what is that all about? is that a way of showing the voters how tough they still are and making it easier than to compromise? >> that seems to be what it is. it seems to be a little bit of a tactic and maybe a sop to the base. a lot of conservative republicans are worried about what they see as republica
they're talking much less about the spending cuts that and also they say would be part of a so-called balanced deal. but i think on some level, republicans realize that they don't have a lot of leverage in this situation. certainly people want to see both taxes and spending. but the republicans that i talked to are a little bit nervous. and you see them also coming out with some tough talk. speaker boehner saying that he even wants to bring health care back into things. but i think republicans...
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>> we really think that president obama won the campaign in the spring. and what is key is in the west wing, in late may his advisors basically told him we want to spend the fall's budget right now, on a really tough tv assault against romney. and the president had to be convinced by the advisors to do this, and obviously he was thinking financially are we going to have that money in the fall or spend it now it was a risk but one that ultimately paid off for president obama. governor romney at that point was still trying to put together the pieces for his primary just ended. >> why didn't he respond? why didn't they refute the attacks about bain capitol? >> one of the issues was governor romney was just not willing to lend himself money as he was in 2008. there was a perception among his senior staff that he didn't want to be seen as buying the election. so in order for him to have gone toe-to-toe with obama at that point in time he would have had to use his own money and that wasn't even broached in the campaign. >> warner: one of the most fascinating th
>> we really think that president obama won the campaign in the spring. and what is key is in the west wing, in late may his advisors basically told him we want to spend the fall's budget right now, on a really tough tv assault against romney. and the president had to be convinced by the advisors to do this, and obviously he was thinking financially are we going to have that money in the fall or spend it now it was a risk but one that ultimately paid off for president obama. governor...
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the obama campaign is trying to exploit an advantage here, because they have more money to spend at this point and they're trying to before he can define himself. we saw it happen in 2004 with president bush's campaign. it's very similar to that. but the question is, are people paying attention or not? because the polls have not moved at all of the either a, they've wasted a lot of money, or b -- gwen: they've built a foundation. >> to make voters skeptical of mitt romney. gwen: finally tonight, upheaval on the other side of the world as the conflict in syria is officially declared a civil war, a designation that still moves it no closer to resolution in part because syria's allies blocked yet another u.n. effort to tighten sanctions against the assad regime. and officials around the world worried about what syria might do with the dangerous weapons it already possesses. >> one can only hope that one day before too many thousands more die that russia and china will stop protecting assad and allow this council to play its proper role. >> that they have a responsibility to safeguard their
the obama campaign is trying to exploit an advantage here, because they have more money to spend at this point and they're trying to before he can define himself. we saw it happen in 2004 with president bush's campaign. it's very similar to that. but the question is, are people paying attention or not? because the polls have not moved at all of the either a, they've wasted a lot of money, or b -- gwen: they've built a foundation. >> to make voters skeptical of mitt romney. gwen: finally...
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federal spending at 20% of gdp or less because that is enough. [ applause ] the choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth or hard limits on the size of government. and we choose to limit government. [ applause ] i learned a good deal about economics and about america from the author of the reagan tax reform, the great jack kemp. [ applause ] what gave jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. we need that same optimism right now. in our dealings with other nations, a romney-ryan administration will speak with confidence and clarity whenever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the american president is on their side. [ applause ] instead of managing american decline, leaving allies to doubt it and adversaries to test us we'll act in the conviction that the united states is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known! [ cheering and applause ] president obama is the kind of politics
federal spending at 20% of gdp or less because that is enough. [ applause ] the choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth or hard limits on the size of government. and we choose to limit government. [ applause ] i learned a good deal about economics and about america from the author of the reagan tax reform, the great jack kemp. [ applause ] what gave jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong...
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i think one of the things he will do is spend his time talking about the challenges that president obama faced, the way he responded to them, why those were the right choices for the american people and why we need to stick with an economic program that builds on again what he tried to do in office with success and i think what president obama is trying to do equally. we haven't felt it as much as we need to but i think it will build success. >> charlie, let's think about four years ago today. 4 years ago today bill clinton was a con troa verse yal and i would say somewhat discredited figure within the democratic party. difficult primary struggle between barack obama and hillary clinton. there was really animosity between the obama camp and clinton camp and he was not a happy person at that time, at least he wasn't meap politically. you talk about resilience. you talk about -- i mean this is remarkable. he really was down and four years later he is critical, he's a validate tor for barack obama. let's go back tor where i was. republicans weren't quite as generous in the '90s in their sup
i think one of the things he will do is spend his time talking about the challenges that president obama faced, the way he responded to them, why those were the right choices for the american people and why we need to stick with an economic program that builds on again what he tried to do in office with success and i think what president obama is trying to do equally. we haven't felt it as much as we need to but i think it will build success. >> charlie, let's think about four years ago...
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obama's accomplishment, with bin laden. the democratic ad featured this mitt romney quote from 2007. "it's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just catch one person." question, on wednesday, president obama told nbc that the day bin laden died was the "most important single day of his first term in office." how much does president obama stand to gain which biresurrecting osama this week? >> i agree with pat that there was something unseemly about the touchdown dance. he went going over there to jews sign a treaty. there's been lots of complaints about afghanis, even the new york times complaining there wasn't enough specifics some the purpose of the trip was the touchdown dance. as far as a political benefit to obama, it doesn't primarily sort of help him. i don't think there's an osama bump but it neuters a republican attack that obama is not strong enough on foreign policy. >> you remember when osama bin laden was finally killed, his popularity jumped about 12 points. and i remember saying t
obama's accomplishment, with bin laden. the democratic ad featured this mitt romney quote from 2007. "it's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just catch one person." question, on wednesday, president obama told nbc that the day bin laden died was the "most important single day of his first term in office." how much does president obama stand to gain which biresurrecting osama this week? >> i agree with pat that there was something...
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, and obama would like $2.anist of spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. can they sell that to their bases? much harder to know. >> woodruff: the president did reelection, he won barely, but he won a majority, being sent back to office-- into office for a second term. doesn't that count for something? >> it does count for something, judy. the president is the only nationally elected officeholder. each of the people who is elected and will be taking the oath of office on the first day of the new session is himed and herself elected as well. i just hope that the republicans would learn, and the democrats as well, from the great lesson of ronald reagan. take one of the great conservative icon's words, someone who is with us 80% of the time, he is our ally and friend-- or she is ally and friend now that there are so many women in the senate-- and not our opponent, not a traitor. and i think this has punished the republicans in their nominating process. i think sometimes it punishes the teams, this idea of ideological purity, and i hope that can be somehow subm
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to steer clear of the fiscal cliff-- the combination of tax hikes and government spending cuts scheduled to take affect in january. our market monitor this week says plan now for higher taxes soon, and higher interest rates eventually. duncan richardson is chief investment officer at eaton vance management. he joins us from that firm in boston. duncan, i take it you're a pessimist in regards to avoiding the fiscal cliff that we're going to go over? >> not really a pessimist. i think the fiscal cliff is going to be more of a fiscal slope, but there will be a tax element to it. i think because we're starting at such a low level of tax rates, we're very likely to have higher taxes either immediately with the expiration of the payroll tax and potentially on capital gains and dividends in 2013 and beyond. >> tom: how should invests approach that, invest on what tax rates may be next year? >> not really. but there are great costs to be avoided by lessening the tax drag on your investment. positioning your portfolio and making sure you're in sthooks can outperform in a rising interest rate envi
to steer clear of the fiscal cliff-- the combination of tax hikes and government spending cuts scheduled to take affect in january. our market monitor this week says plan now for higher taxes soon, and higher interest rates eventually. duncan richardson is chief investment officer at eaton vance management. he joins us from that firm in boston. duncan, i take it you're a pessimist in regards to avoiding the fiscal cliff that we're going to go over? >> not really a pessimist. i think the...
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the obama stimulus is winding down. the spending caps were passed as part of the budget control act of 2011 are starting to bite and state and local governments face ongoing pressures that are forcing them to raise taxes and trim. in addition, there are uncertainties emanating out of the debt crisis in europe. if a quote lehman event unquote happens in europe during 2012 it could send financial shockwaves around the globe without regard to economic borders. and all of these risks and uncertain occur at a time when the federal reserve have already pushed interest rates very low is not very well poised to try to offset any negative surprises. >> brown: harry holzer, pick up on where we started. how do you view the unemployment number. a lagging indicator, as a helpful indicator for how strong the economy really is. >> it is a lagging indicator. it does usually lag by at least a few months. what is interesting is that at the end of the last year we had gdp growth, economic growth of a little under 3%. that's a good number,
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around there to make their families and their friends have a better life because they won't get to spend it with those little kids, and the teachers and the faculty. >> woodruff: you can find all of the student videos online. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: president obama tapped senator john kerry to replace outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton. one week after the school massacre in newtown, connecticut, the head of the national rifle association dismissed talk of new gun laws. instead, he called for putting armed police in every school. and congress went home for the christmas holiday with no fiscal cliff agreement in sight. online, we look at some of the most popular new words of the year, according to one popular lexicon. hari sreenivasan tells us more. >> sreenivasan: what are the buzzwords of 2012? and do you know what they mean? quiz yourself on the most popular new vernacular from urban dictionary. we kept our political analysts busy this year. watch a compilation of highlights from our doubleheader conversations, on the sport of politics and politics o
around there to make their families and their friends have a better life because they won't get to spend it with those little kids, and the teachers and the faculty. >> woodruff: you can find all of the student videos online. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: president obama tapped senator john kerry to replace outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton. one week after the school massacre in newtown, connecticut, the head of the national rifle association...
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then 2007 democrats take the house and senate spending starts going all the bush's years spending went up too much but in the last two years really too much. >> rose: one of the arguments that's interesting about obama and the criticism of the president is the stimulus program and it didn't do... didn't create growth, didn't create jobs, didn't create... they argue that it did. >> yeah. >> rose: the other central part is they say they had to compromise on the stimulus because they couldn't get more through the legislature, through congress and that the congress demanded the treatment of tax that it demanded. that that was a republican argument that they had to adhere to in order to get the stimulus through congress. >> well, in the first two years remember they had a supermajority in the house and up to 60 votes in the senate. he passed most of his legislation, obamacare was all passed by democrats, no republican votes >> i'm talking about the stimulus bill, not obamacare. >> the stimulus bill on the house side there were no republican votes for it, they didn't even talk to the republi
then 2007 democrats take the house and senate spending starts going all the bush's years spending went up too much but in the last two years really too much. >> rose: one of the arguments that's interesting about obama and the criticism of the president is the stimulus program and it didn't do... didn't create growth, didn't create jobs, didn't create... they argue that it did. >> yeah. >> rose: the other central part is they say they had to compromise on the stimulus because...
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so now they're spending $6 million on an ad that is so blatantly false "the washington post" said they have no shame. let's get the facts out because it's important that you guys know the truth. president obama has helped create hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, projects in all 50 states. and the way these oil billionaires and their front group completely ignore the truth is breathtaking. let's take some crazy examples from their attack ad. they claim the administration gave money to build electric cars in finland. no, the department of energy's funding was specifically for u.s. jobs at u.s. facilities. sure enough, the company is employing 700 workers in california and they're planning to build a plant in delaware. okay, another ridiculous claim -- they said we sent money to china to build traffic lights. that's wrong again. those traffic lights were assembled here, in this country, and helped expand our light manufacturing industry in this country. they said we gave money to a company building solar plants in mexico. nope. wrong again. our money is going to a solar plant he
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and then it spends that money on negative ads paid for by secret donors. >>> barack obama's got lots of excuses for the bad economy. >> headwinds coming from europe -- >>> warren went on a charm offensive with some of the same banks who got bailed out. tell professor warren we need jobs, not more bailouts and bigger government. >>> today in washington, america's debt increased $3.5 billion. $3.5 billion every single day since john tester arrived in the u.s. senate. >> $3.5 billion more debt per day since mccaskill's been in office. tell claire to stop spending and cut the debt. >>> doesn't that make a travesty of the very meaning of social welfare? >> crossroads is an interesting example, because when they started, they came out and said, "we're american crossroads we're a group of republicans and conservatives." this was after citizens united, 2010. "we need to change washington. we're going to be completely transparent. we're going to form one of these new super pacs, we're going to disclose all our donors." well, that's fair enough. i mean, if that's what the law allows them to do
and then it spends that money on negative ads paid for by secret donors. >>> barack obama's got lots of excuses for the bad economy. >> headwinds coming from europe -- >>> warren went on a charm offensive with some of the same banks who got bailed out. tell professor warren we need jobs, not more bailouts and bigger government. >>> today in washington, america's debt increased $3.5 billion. $3.5 billion every single day since john tester arrived in the u.s....
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barack obama, mitt romney are competing very heavily in virginia. so everybody is making this a national issue. when you look at the spending in this race, it's been really amazing. we actually just tallied these up. stu calculated $51.5 million has been spent from outside groups this race in virginia alone. >> brown: as a virginia resident i'm well aware. >> we're seeing all these ads. it's really phenomenal of how much influence they're trying to do in addition to the messaging. tim kaine was the national democratic committee chairman was almost chosen as his vice president in 2008. you've seen republicans attempt to tie them to one another. george allen is attempted to tie not only to mitt romney but also to george w. bush. >> brown: another one getting a lot of national attention is in massachusetts. >> it is. this is one of the kind of national sexy races that everybody is watching of scott brown who won a special election for the late senator edward kennedy's seat against elizabeth warren, a high-profile democratic recruit, consumer activist.
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. >> suarez: still to come on the "newshour": fallout from the birth control ruling; greece's spending cuts; germany's debate over bailing out its neighbors and a novel that explores how society treats people with disabilities. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama granted waivers to ten states today-- excusing them from requirements of the "no child left behind" law. the law mandated that all public school students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. but opponents said the goal was unrealistic, and that schools falling short were being punished unfairly. republicans said the president was overreaching his authority, in granting the waivers. states given a waiver will have to set new targets for improving student performance. the u.s. house has overwhelmingly approved its version of a bill that bans members of congress from insider stock trading. it also affects officials in the executive branch. the issue gathered steam after a cbs report last fall that lawmakers were enriching themselves by trading on information not ava
. >> suarez: still to come on the "newshour": fallout from the birth control ruling; greece's spending cuts; germany's debate over bailing out its neighbors and a novel that explores how society treats people with disabilities. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama granted waivers to ten states today-- excusing them from requirements of the "no child left behind" law. the law mandated that all public school...
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so the obama people were trying to get a national standard so you can have way fewer tests you could compare more. texas is refusing to take part in these discussions because governor perry says it's federal government trying to dictate what his state should do. >> rose: so texas. as texas goes, how the lone star state hijacked the american agenda. i didn't know they hijacked the american agenda. just karl rove or who is this? >> well, they didn't go with either. i was so fascinated when the tea party rallies started, the famous one in which rick perry did not really say "let's secede" but there was much secede talk going on. >> rose: right, right. >> and i was watching these. there was a tea party rally at the beginning of the obama administration, i swear every time a cow mooed in texas there was a tea party rally and they were so angry. >> rose: every time a cow mooed? >> yeah, there were quite a few cows in texas and they were so, so angry and i thought... i was thinking about it that wow they're so angry but if you look at the stuff that's happened, the big national changes we'
so the obama people were trying to get a national standard so you can have way fewer tests you could compare more. texas is refusing to take part in these discussions because governor perry says it's federal government trying to dictate what his state should do. >> rose: so texas. as texas goes, how the lone star state hijacked the american agenda. i didn't know they hijacked the american agenda. just karl rove or who is this? >> well, they didn't go with either. i was so...
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house speaker john boehner also spoke to president obama on the phone last night. he said he wanted to know where the administration would rein in spending, but that he had heard nothing new. >> i was hopeful we'd see a specific plan for cutting spending. we sought to find out today what the president is really willing to do. listen, i remain hopeful that productive conversations in the days ahead can be had but the white house has to get serious. >> sreenivasan: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell echoed that complaint. in a statement, he said, "today, they took a step backward and significantly closer to the cliff." conversely, white house spokesman jay carney charged republicans failed to provide any details on what they could tolerate in the way of tax increases. >> the president has always engaged in this with real numbers. when you talk about flexibility on revenue, all we've heard so far and it's welcomed, don't get me wrong, but we've heard that yes, revenue on the table but we need more than that. >> sreenivasan: away from the microphones, there were re
house speaker john boehner also spoke to president obama on the phone last night. he said he wanted to know where the administration would rein in spending, but that he had heard nothing new. >> i was hopeful we'd see a specific plan for cutting spending. we sought to find out today what the president is really willing to do. listen, i remain hopeful that productive conversations in the days ahead can be had but the white house has to get serious. >> sreenivasan: senate minority...
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president obama offered his optimism at an event with middle-class americans who'd be hit by any tax increase. >> i'm glad to see-- if you've been reading the papers lately-- - that more and more republicans in congress seem to be agreeing with this idea that we should have a balanced approach. so if both parties agree we should not raise taxes on middle class families, let's begin our work with where we agree. >> brown: one such lawmaker is republican house member tom cole of oklahoma. the journal "politico" reported he's urging colleagues to extend middle class tax cuts but allow tax rates for top earners to rise for now. that's what the president wants, but republican leaders have called for raising revenues by closing loopholes and capping deductions. and this morning, house speaker john boehner said he'd reinforced that position to congressman cole. >> you're not going to grow the economy if you raise tax rates on the top two rates. it'll hurt small businesses, it'll hurt our economy, it's why it's not the right approach. we're willing to put revenue on the table as long as we'r
president obama offered his optimism at an event with middle-class americans who'd be hit by any tax increase. >> i'm glad to see-- if you've been reading the papers lately-- - that more and more republicans in congress seem to be agreeing with this idea that we should have a balanced approach. so if both parties agree we should not raise taxes on middle class families, let's begin our work with where we agree. >> brown: one such lawmaker is republican house member tom cole of...
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they allowed obama to spend his money. get a little bit ahead if you want foin ohio, in early august you won't be able to sustain it in september and october. >> ifill: having a tough race against mitt romney, what is it that you learned other than he's tough has a bigger kitchen en, that you could advise mitt romney, you could advise barack obama -- >> i want to say this. i've been in a lot of campaigns over the years. the romney team is the easiest team to work with. once we suspended our campaign, we sat down with his team, they are the easiest team to work with of any presidential campaign. i go back to 1976. they're professional, they're open to ideas, they integrate things. this whole newt university that we've been doing is their idea, they are totally supportive of working together. i've never seen a team this willing to absorb new ideas and approaches. >> ifill: that's -- you've been doing a little schooling down there by -- interesting idea. speaker, newt gingrich. thank you. we've been -- i guess we're in to the
they allowed obama to spend his money. get a little bit ahead if you want foin ohio, in early august you won't be able to sustain it in september and october. >> ifill: having a tough race against mitt romney, what is it that you learned other than he's tough has a bigger kitchen en, that you could advise mitt romney, you could advise barack obama -- >> i want to say this. i've been in a lot of campaigns over the years. the romney team is the easiest team to work with. once we...
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for president obama, the real question i would like to hear him talk about is, why haven't you spend more time explaining the afghanistan war, other policies of yours in the middle east? i think hopefully in the debate he'll do that but i don't really feel that president obama has taken the american people into his confidence about our middle east policy. i don't mean all the little details and the sort of, you know, whether you're giving arms to kalid or jamil in syria or whatever but some sense of what is the strategic vision right now that the obama administration is pursuing. where do we stand in this problem of terror? where is it going? >> brown: same question to you, mr. brzezinski, what specific questions would you like to hear or ask of both candidates? >> i think walter put it extremely well. we need a serious discussion of what should be done and what can be done and what the united states must avoid doing. one of these things that it must avoid doing is becoming the solitary combatant in the middle east. there are people who are are talking loosely about the united states
for president obama, the real question i would like to hear him talk about is, why haven't you spend more time explaining the afghanistan war, other policies of yours in the middle east? i think hopefully in the debate he'll do that but i don't really feel that president obama has taken the american people into his confidence about our middle east policy. i don't mean all the little details and the sort of, you know, whether you're giving arms to kalid or jamil in syria or whatever but some...
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. >> college grads should not spend their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, looking up at fading obama posters wondering when they can move out and get on with their lives! >> brown: the man at the top of the ticket also renewed a theme from his speech-- winning over former supporters of the president. >> i need to have you do the work on november 6 that gets me elecd in florida. for that to happen, you are going to have to go out and find a person or two who voted for barack obama. i know they're here-- you can see some of the glue on the back of their bumper sticker. find them and convince them to get on the team. >> brown: romney then made a change to his schedule and diverted to louisiana to survey hurricane isaac storm damage with republican governor bobby jindal. >> i'm here to learn and obviously draw some attention to what's going on here so that people around the country know that the folks here need help. >> brown: it was all part of building on hoped-for momentum from the convention, which last night focused on mitt romney, the man and the leader. friends gave testimonials t
. >> college grads should not spend their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, looking up at fading obama posters wondering when they can move out and get on with their lives! >> brown: the man at the top of the ticket also renewed a theme from his speech-- winning over former supporters of the president. >> i need to have you do the work on november 6 that gets me elecd in florida. for that to happen, you are going to have to go out and find a person or two who voted for barack...
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look what obama care does. o bammar -- o bam ar kay takes 716 million dollars from medicare to spend on obamacare. even their own chief actuary medicare backs this up. he says you can't spend the same dollar twice. you can't claim this money goes to medicare and obamacare. then they put this new o kbam-- o bam ar kay board in charge of cutting medicare each and every year in ways that lead to denied care for current seniors this board by the way, 15 people, the president's supposed to appoint them next year. and not one of them even has to have medical training. in social security f we don't shore up social security, when we run out of the ious, when the program goes bankrupt, a 25% across-the-board benefit cut kicks in on current seniors in the middle of their retirement. we're going to stop that from happening. they haven't put a credible solution on the table. he'll tell you about vouchers. he'll say all these things to try and scare people. here's what we are saying. give younger people when they become med
look what obama care does. o bammar -- o bam ar kay takes 716 million dollars from medicare to spend on obamacare. even their own chief actuary medicare backs this up. he says you can't spend the same dollar twice. you can't claim this money goes to medicare and obamacare. then they put this new o kbam-- o bam ar kay board in charge of cutting medicare each and every year in ways that lead to denied care for current seniors this board by the way, 15 people, the president's supposed to appoint...